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Grateful Dead Live at Baltimore Civic Center on 1972-09-17

by Grateful Dead

Publication date: 1972-09-17 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Cary Wolfson, David Minches

Collection: GratefulDead

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead

Resource: DeadLists Project

Item Size: 1.5G

Set 1

The Promised Land
Sugaree
Black Throated Wind
Friend Of The Devil
El Paso
Bird Song
BigRiver
Tennessee Jed
Mexicali Blues
China Cat Sunflower ->
I Know You Rider ()
Playing In The Band ()
CaseyJones ()

Set 2

Truckin' ()
Loser
Jack Straw
MississippiHalf-Step Uptown Toodeloo
Me And My Uncle
He's Gone ->
The Other One ->
Drums ->
The Other One () ->
Sing Me BackHome
Sugar Magnolia
Uncle John's Band ()

Encore

One More Saturday Night

Addeddate: 2008-01-26 16:46:35

Identifier: gd1972-09-17.aud-wolfson.minches.28165.shnf

Lineage: DAT > SHN

Location: Baltimore, MD

Source: Audience (taper Cary Wolfson) > Cass > DAT > SHN

Taped by: Cary Wolfson

Transferred by: David Minches

Type: sound

Venue: Baltimore Civic Center

Year: 1972

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Reviewer: hamstrungblues - - September 4, 2023
Subject: september audience

a Balmer familiarity
e laughing questioning, "How can this be? Late summer.
1972. Tambourine.

Reviewer: JPD3 - - August 18, 2020
Subject: Thanks Agin

This recording is a public service in a time of need! Thank you for this!
Pete Davis in VA.

Reviewer: NOOGIE - - February 1, 2018
Subject: Fantastic

72 will always be my favorite year for the dead! The show has 3 of my favorite songs (and probably a lot of people's), Sugaree, Playing, and Jack Straw. Oh to have been 16 in 1972, I would have probably followed them around!

Reviewer: mtw0015 - - May 9, 2017
Subject: fantastic

Thanks Cary,
A fabulous recording of an incredible show. One of my favorites...FOTD is pristine and He's Gone through Sing Me Back Home sounds like it was worth the price of admission alone.

Reviewer: demora - - September 25, 2015
Subject: Epic other one

Worth a listen just for that. Also a bouncy fun Friend of the Devil and a moving Sing Me Back Home.

Reviewer: njpg - - September 18, 2013
Subject: -

Amazingly good recording for '72. Very good show.

Reviewer: JasW - - August 6, 2013
Subject: It's 1972

And that's all one should need to say. The only other commment I would make is WHAT is that sound coming out of Phil's bass at exactly 30:12 of The Other One? Sounds like he plugged the analog bass synth of doom in for a second. Never heard that from a bass before. But then again I never heard anyone play bass like Phil.

Reviewer: fibber - - October 24, 2012
Subject: tone

Cary Wolfson, you rule for putting this up. I love this recording. Yeah, the tambourine gets a bit unbearable, but Judy almost balances it out with some charming avant-garde playing here and there. Fabulous Bird Song (in a month of fabulous Bird Songs), furious, if frustratingly mostly muffled Truckin, and of course solid '72 playing throughout, but the centerpiece is no doubt He's Gone>monster Other One>Sing Me Back Home, which is capped by one of Garcia's absolute best cowboy solos. What a tone. A must listen.

Reviewer: Da Red Rooster - - September 24, 2012
Subject: Rich with memories

It's been a while since anyone commented on this one, so, as the guy who taped it, let me chime in. My then-girlfriend and I moved in together the day of this show. I had seen GD in SF in 1970 and this was a chance to drag along my friends who had never seen them but had heard me rave about them for a couple years. We were ably abetted by some of the nicest LSD I ever ate.
I used my trusty Sony TC-124 with its "one-point stereo" mic. During the set break, I fastidiously put the plastic cover on the microphone to protect. The second set opened with an outrageous "Truckin'" and about halfway through I realized that I'd never taken that cap off the mic. You can hear me say "Oh, shit" before the sound explodes from its muffled state. I think it's the high point of the recording.
I was so glad when this came out as DP23 and I could hear it unblemished (and without my friend Judy's incessant tambourine banging away). All in all, though, I think it's a pretty good AUD for its time and I still have a soft spot for it.
BTW, that girlfriend's name is Nancy and we got married five years later. Today is our 35th wedding anniversary.
Cary

Reviewer: friscobob - - November 17, 2009 (edited)
Subject: worth it for the PITB cut

It's worth getting this AUD tape, in order to patch in the missing segment of PITB that is cut on the SBD. It's quite a tasty PITB, too bad the SBD cuts near the end, but that's why we fall back on the AUDs.

Reviewer: mikeyank99 - - May 31, 2009
Subject: dpks

another dpks here for download the money loving people missed this one too great sound thanks to the money people for leaving this here

Reviewer: cb18201 - - December 25, 2008 (edited)
Subject: omsn

too bad dick couldnt fit One More Saturday Night on DP 23, unless maybe it wasnt recorded and doesnt even exist on sbd, its really a hot version, i just took this version and added it to the end of my DP 23 in my iTunes. 4 stars because this show is amazing even though the quality of this isnt the greatest

Reviewer: gphishmon - - April 19, 2008
Subject: Great 72 Aud

Look, it's 72! Fall 72 at that! That almost automatically gives it 5 stars if the sound's good. 72 for me is their most consistently good year. The show was good enough to be a DP. This recording is just slightly speedy, but not enough to matter. It's an incredible AUD from 72, when AUD's could be unlistenable.

Reviewer: themuscneverstops - - March 12, 2008
Subject: 4 for sound, 5 for show

Let's see, this show has been released as Dick's Picks 23, and that was my very first Grateful Dead CD. Highlights for me are TN Jed, it's the best version they played. Playing In The Band, almost spacey, but still on planet earth, MS Half Step is real nice and pretty laid back, this is my favorite Sugar Magnolia, just listen to Jerry rip it up from 4.58 to 6.03 (DP23 timing). And, because it was left off DP23, I can finally hear the One More Saturday Night, it's pretty awesome.
Show: 5
Sound: 4
I give it a 5, only a fool would pass up this download.

Reviewer: He Live's - - March 9, 2008
Subject: good not great

decent sounding AUD here....
the vocals are a little hit or miss, but you get yet another WELL JAMMED 72 Spectacular with bird song, playin, china>rider, he's gone>other one.... and a nice 1/2 step, one of the 1st ten ever.
worth it for the highlights

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